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Even if you don't speak a word of Spanish, there's a pretty big chance that you know Aterciopelados, a Colombian band that jumped to the international scene in the '90s. Its heartbreak-song Bolero Falaz travelled around the

(Photo: To the right, the Coca-Cola plant accused of spilling in the Bogota sewage system. El Tiempo newspaper.) Industria Nacional de Gaseosas, a subsidiary of the biggest bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Latin America (Coca-Cola FEMSA),

In the first year Earth Day that has gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the

What to do when you’ve found a flock of 14 members of a species of parrot last seen in 1911 and the local human population is so spread out it’s impossible to get them all in one place to educate them about it? Well, bringing the education to them is

We’ve written before about the awesome example of urban renewal set by Bogota in Colombia, including a link to the first part of StreetFilms’ inspiring coverage of the city’s initiatives to improve walking, biking and mass transit infrastructure. Now

Sustainability engineer Pablo Päster's work has appeared on TreeHugger several times before; his eye-opening analyses of bottled water, local food and old vs. new cars offer a thoughtful, thorough look at the true environmental costs of things many of

Juan Valdez, the iconic Colombian coffee grower who is a brand for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, has been recast as slimmer, more youthful and eco-conscious. Hoping to cash in on the booming market for specialty coffees,

We've told you a bit about the amazingly versatile and sustainable tagua nut before. Known as vegetable ivory, tagua is collected from the unsurprisingly named Ivory Nut Palm, which grows in the rainforests of South America. Crucially the nuts can only

El Tiempo, one of Colombia's biggest newspapers, published yesterday an article announcing that "Colombian eco-design is gaining momentum" in the country, moved mainly by a growing number of young designers working with recovered materials. From

Palm oil has seen some controversy in the past year or so on TreeHugger. It's even been called an "eco-nightmare" because of deforestation that's occurred leaving orangutans and birds without their natural habitat. But today we may see some new

Photo credit: Mark Basset, The Source Photography.
The young British adventurer Hugh Sawyer amazed people last year with his adaptability and survival instincts while he lived in the woods for one year. Inspired by his extreme camping experience, during

Image by David Sandison from The Independent.
Having taken on Politics, War, HIV/Aids and the cotton industry with her controversial clothing designs, fashion activist Katherine Hamnett is now taking on the dubious ethics of the gold industry with a